They seemed to have already envisioned Ye Buyu meeting a violent end.
Ye Buyu saw it too-the tragic future in which she exploded into a cloud of blood.
For the first time, she felt she was hopelessly bad with words.
The next second, she began to explain.
"What I meant was, are you asking to die? No, I mean, do you want to die? I..."
She got her tongue in order and said, one word at a time, "What I wanted to say was, you want to be clean, right?"
The confusion vanished from the little boy's face. The gloom in his eyes abruptly dissipated like melting ice and snow, and his eyes lit up as he nodded vigorously.
"Yes, yes, yes! I like being clean."
Ye Buyu nodded guiltily. "You think it's fun because I can remove the Calamity Aura from your body, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes! I don't want to stink. I want to be clean and fresh."
Ye Buyu continued to lead him along. "You won't kill me, right?"
"Wrong, wrong. When you stop being fun, I'll kill you."
Ye Buyu: ...
Her lips moved, but she managed to swallow her curses.
Fun, my ass! You little brat!
Ye Buyu's eyes darted around. "I do have an ability that's more fun than all the others, but I'm out of power now. How about you wait until I've saved up enough power, and then I come back?"
Let me out to gather my teammates and have Kou Ying make a batch of weapons to blow up your damned Palace!
The little boy stared at her for a long while. "No. You people show up every so often, give the surfaces a big cleaning, and then run off. If you run off too, won't I lose out big-time?"
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